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Josh Salisbury

Ed Sheeran sings and plays guitar at Thinking Out Loud copyright trial in New York

Ed Sheeran sang and played guitar in a New York court case on Thursday in a bid to convince jurors he did not copy Marvin Gaye’s Let’s Get It On.

Sheeran is being sued in a civil case by the heirs to Gaye’s co-writer, Ed Townsend, who claim that he infringed copyright with parts of his hit Thinking Out Loud.

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